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Key facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Established
- November 4, 1880
- Recognized
- April 25, 1884
- Named after
- Cañari
- Capital
- Azogues
- Largest city
- La Troncal
- Cantons
- List of cantons Azogues Biblián Cañar Déleg El Tambo Suscal La Troncal
- Prefect
- Marcelo Jaramillo ( RC )
- Vice prefect
- Ximena Andrade
- Governor
- David Crespo Cárdenas
- Total
- 3,647 km (1,408 sq mi)
- Density
- 62.40/km (161.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- ECT
- Vehicle registration
- U
- Hdi 2017
- 0.727 , high · 12th
- Website
- www .hcpcanar .gov .ec
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Ecuador
- Official name
- Provincia de Cañar
- Demonym
- cañarense
- Country
- Ecuador
- Located in
- Ecuador
- Contains
- Cañar Canton
- Capital
- Azogues
- Official language
- Northern Quichua
- Population
- 97681
- Area
- 3647.22
- Elevation
- 2342
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Shares border with
- Morona-Santiago Province
- Official website
- www.gobiernodelcanar.gob.ec
- Dialing code
- 07
- Licence plate code
- U
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- Commons category
- Cañar Province
- inception
- 1880-11-03
- office held by head of government
- prefect
- topic's main category
- Category:Cañar Province
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Cañar Province
- postal code
- EC03
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Encyclopedic overview
Cañar ( Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈɲaɾ]) is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Azogues. At the time of census 2010 the province had a population of 225,184. It contains the 16th-century ruins of Ingapirca, the best-known Inca settlement in Ecuador and a product of their conquest of the indigenous Cañari.
Demographics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cañar Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.